Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Shirt wadder

I pinned the sleeve into the armhole and that didn’t look too bad. There woud be almost no seam allowance at the point of the ‘corner’ as described in my post from Sunday, but that wouldn’t be too bad.

During construction of the body of the shirt, I got the feeling that it was too wide and that the extra space for the bust was at the wrong place. This is a pattern with pattern pieces for different bust sizes, and I used the D-cup, which is the correct size according to the instructions.

When I had sewn shoulder and side seams it was time to test. For me this is completely not working. It is much too wide and the bust space is too much too the side. Lucky it’s not expensive fabric, pity about the time already invested in the collar and sleeves.

I’m going to sew another shirt from the Burda pattern I used last time and sew a muslin for a pair of much needed pants. Quickly forgetting this pattern.

I am a busty women (slight understatement), but I am NOT a fan of patterns with cup sizes. I'd rather add the dart myself. When the pattern has a dart, it's never the right size (not even a D or DD) and it's NEVER in the right location.

What a shame. I was planning on buying this pattern. I wonder if it would work better to use the smallest cup size (or no cup, if that is available on the pattern) and then size up myself.

How annoying. I like the patterns with different cup sizes, (I am lazy) but there does seem to be a lot of ease at the bust in some of them, and like Shams, I find the dart placement a bit hit and miss. I will steer clear of this pattern!

That Vogue pattern is strange! What a shame because the line drawing is so nice. I wonder if you can still use the collar and cuffs on another shirt pattern? If you can get more of the same fabric. It would be nice to use them, they looked so good.

I'm sorry that the pattern didn't work out for you, but I have to say I am glad that I'm not the only one having sizing issues with BMV patterns. According to their tables I would need a size 22 but this is way too large. I started to automatically make a size 20 which is much better. And it's the same with cup sizes: I would need Cup D according to instructions, but the C-Cup patterns fit me much better.

Hopefully you don't think of this as a waste of time, cause you learned a lot. Actually rotating some of those darts would have made them a lot more palatable, but in the long run, you learned a lot - and so yeah, it's a wadder, but at least you didn't let it stop you or get you down, AND you will be surprised the next time you're met with this sort of challenge how you'll plug right through! Personally, I think it takes a lot of moxie to post this, as other people can learn too.